CISCE announces revised dates for first-term board exams, to be conducted in offline mode

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has announced the dates for the first-term board exams for classes 10 and 12, two days after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the same.

This year’s ICSE and ISC exams will be conducted in offline mode, CISCE announced on Saturday. ICSE exams will be held between November 29 and December 16 while ISC exams have been scheduled between November 22 and December 20. Class 10 exams will be conducted from 11am while those for Class 12 will be held after 2pm.

Students will be allowed to take their exams from the schools they registered in

On October 19, the board had announced that ICSE and ISC exams for the 2021-22 academic year had been postponed “due to reasons beyond our control”. Exams had originally been scheduled from November 15 and 16 for Class 10 and 12.

CISCE Chief Executive Gerry Arathoon said the board had received many emails from heads of schools, parents and students, who protested against holding exams online citing reasons like the non-availability of devices, irregular power supplies, and network and bandwidth issues.

“The CISCE being a student friend board, after much deliberation has thus decided to conduct the ICSE and ISC Semester 1 Examinations in the offline mode, with exams to be held in candidates’ respective schools,” Arathoon said in the release on Friday.